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logo of the kufic calligraphy | This logo was designed to contain, in Arabic, the identity of the architect.
The kufic calligraphy is based on a geometric organization of the Arabic script. “The city of Kufah was established in Iraq in the year 641 A.D. It flourished in a short time from a soldiers' camp into an urban center with vital cultural activities. Among these activities was the refinement of the Arabic script into an elegant and rather uniform script, which came to be known as Kufic or Kufi. It had a combination of square and angular lines on one hand, and compact bold circular forms on the other hand. The vertical strokes were short, while the horizontal strokes were long and extended. As Kufic reached perfection in the second half of the 8 th century, it superseded other earlier attempts of improvement of Arabic calligraphy, and became the only script used for copying the Holy Quran for the next three hundred years.
When the cursive styles were becoming popular and refined in the 10 th century, Kufic responded by overemphasizing many qualities of the cursive scripts in a geometrical style called 'Eastern Kufic,' where slender vertical strokes and oblique strokes animate the more rigid early Kufic. This style was mainly a book calligraphy rather than architectural calligraphy style, but was very popular on ceramics”. From article “The Art of Arabic Calligraphy”. Of www.sakkal.com Neat and well-calibrated, the Kufic writing is characterized by a composition following to vertical and horizontal lines.
The text is very clear; the vowels are noted in the form of points or bars. Some illustrations : | 
Creation Mamoun Sakkal
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Creation Mamoun Sakkal | 
Creation Letraset
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